Broken Hearts of Broadway
About Broken Hearts of Broadway
Mary Ellis comes from the country for Broadway, gets into a chorus, and is fired for refusing the show owner. Songwriter George Colton finds her work in a Chinese cabaret. She is accused of killing a friend of the owner. George clears her. They marry. He writes a hit play about what happened to them, and she stars in it.
Cast & crew
More about Broken Hearts of Broadway
Irving Cummings produced and directed, from the 1917 play by James Kyrle McCurdy. Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton wrote the script. James Diamond photographed. Select Pictures released it in July 1923. It opened in New York on August 26. Shot in May and early June 1923. Colleen Moore plays Mary. Johnnie Walker plays George. Alice Lake plays Bubbles Revere. Lengths on file are 6,600 and 6,800 feet, seven reels.
Themes
Look
James Diamond photographed the chorus job and the cabaret.
Preservation
Prints are at the Library of Congress, the Academy Film Archive, and Blackhawk Films.
Notes
- Tully Marshall and Kate Price play Barney and Lydia Ryan. Creighton Hale plays an outcast.
- Prints are at the Library of Congress, the Academy Film Archive, and Blackhawk Films.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-broken-hearts-of-broadway.
- The play is 1917. The film is 1923.
Scenes
- Mary loses the chorus job for refusing the owner.
- George's play, with Mary in it, is the hit.
Influenced by
- James Kyrle McCurdy's play Broken Hearts of Broadway (1917)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-broken-hearts-of-broadway)
- Library of Congress
